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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Adam's mother think when Adam tells her his discovery?
(a) He is brilliant.
(b) He is lying.
(c) He's been in the heat too long.
(d) He does not know what he is talking about.

2. What is Stew Meat about to do at the opening to the Epilogue?
(a) Close his shop for the night.
(b) Go to sleep.
(c) Take his wife home.
(d) Restock the shelves.

3. What happens to the card?
(a) It disappears into thin air.
(b) It disintegrates.
(c) The red spot grows warm.
(d) Nothing.

4. What happens if someone really irritates Polly?
(a) She will speak sharply.
(b) She is so nice they walk away.
(c) She runs in the other direction.
(d) She slaps them rather than talking to them.

5. Of what is Adam convinced?
(a) He'll be hauling water forever.
(b) He can fix the problem with the well.
(c) He does not want to go to school.
(d) He does not want to be a farmer.

6. What happens when Polly speaks sharply?
(a) She faints.
(b) She cries.
(c) She starts croaking.
(d) Nothing.

7. What is the situation when Adam wakes the next morning?
(a) His parents are in a boat tied the front porch.
(b) The house is surrounded by water.
(c) His father has driven the wagon out of the valley.
(d) The water has all receded.

8. What business does Adam take up?
(a) Divination.
(b) Hog raising.
(c) Farming.
(d) Dowsing.

9. What do Adam and his father do with the excess water?
(a) Channel it away from the fields.
(b) They do not know what to do.
(c) Put it in tanks.
(d) Let it lie in the pond.

10. What is in the pair of pants that Adam hangs in the closet?
(a) Blinn's card.
(b) A wad of dollar bills.
(c) A few coins.
(d) A pipe and tobacco.

11. What happens to the fields by that night?
(a) They are all watered.
(b) They turn green almost instantaneously.
(c) They are dry and cracked.
(d) They burn.

12. What does Stew Meat realize?
(a) That Adam, Polly and Rowena just want him to miss out on using his card for himself.
(b) That Adam, Polly and Rowena are in a bad place.
(c) That Adam, Polly and Rowena are deluded.
(d) That he was wise not to use his card.

13. What does Rowena tell Sam and Henry?
(a) That she thinks the whole thing is quite hilarious.
(b) About the card.
(c) That she is not responsible for what happened to Henry.
(d) That she will find Blinn and fix things.

14. What happens when Rowena's parents investigate?
(a) They find Henry Piper's briefcase in the woods.
(b) They find one of Henry Piper's shoes in the woods.
(c) They find Henry Piper's watch in the woods.
(d) They find one of Henry Piper's order forms in the woods.

15. What does Sam say when Rowena asks him to wait until she returns?
(a) That he will continue to fertilize Henry.
(b) That she deserves Henry.
(c) That he's always been waiting for her.
(d) That he is tired of waiting for her.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Adam, Polly and Rowena want Stew Meat to do?

2. What do Stew Meat, Adam, Polly and Rowena realize?

3. Why is Rowena unable to go anywhere?

4. Who is at Adam's house when he arrives with the wagon?

5. What does Rowena realize when she thinks back to the day in Blinn's tent?

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